The 41st annual Boars Head and Yule Log festival is coming soon!
January 6th 1pm,4 pm, 7 pm & January 7th 1pm and 4 pm
What a beautiful way to start the New Year!
Tickets are now available by using the button below or by contacting the church office!
Sunday, December 24th at 10am - 4th Sunday of Advent Worship
Sunday, December 24th at 4pm - Family Christmas Eve Service
Sunday, December 24th at 8pm - Traditional Christmas Eve Service
Join us for worship this Sunday, December 24th for the Fourth Sunday of Advent!
Join us as we celebrate and we share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.
The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!
The Hope Lodge has asked us to run their cookie exchange this year. The cookie exchange will be on 12/21. We will be collecting cookies 12/17 through 12/20. We will also be hosting dinner for the patients that night. We need volunteers to make cookies, run the cookie exchange and to make and serve dinner. Being away from home and in the middle of cancer treatments around Christmas is very hard. We are going to do our best to add a little bit of joy to their Christmas season.
If you are interested in participating or have any questions, please reach out to Matt Clark (his email address can be found using the button below) or simply click the button below to use SignUp Genius.
The American Cancer Society Hope Lodge program provides a free home away from home for cancer patients and their caregivers. Patients staying at a Hope Lodge must be in active cancer treatment and permanently reside more than 40 miles away from their cancer treatment center.
The Hope Lodge in Cheltenham, PA has 37 rooms. The Lodge offers a supportive, homelike environment where guests can share a meal, join in the evening's activities, or unwind in their own private room.
Last year, St. Peter’s helped support their annual cookie exchange at Christmas. Our congregation donated dozens of cookies for the patients. In a couple of weeks we will be preparing dinner for the guests. These small acts can provide moments of “normal” and go a long way for someone battling cancer.
Join us as we celebrate and we share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.
The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!
***Sunday School continues this Sunday, December 10th.***
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
The Social Ministry group will “adopt” some local families for Christmas. We are working with the Colonial Neighborhood Council which has identified families who have needs due to family illness, domestic violence, abandonment, or other troubles. We will provide gifts and food.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Take a name tag from the tree. Each tag identifies a member of a family, and provides the gender, age, and size of the person you’ll shop for. If you grab a tag with “mom” on it, the mom would benefit from a food basket or grocery store gift card. Put your name and telephone number on the sign up sheet in the box corresponding to the tag # that you selected, so we can follow up just in case you forget to return the gifts by SUNDAY, December 10th.
WHAT’S DIFFERENT THIS YEAR?
After you buy the gift, please DO NOT WRAP THE GIFTS, so that parents can see what their children are receiving. You are welcome to provide wrapping paper. Either way (and this is important), tape the name tag on the gift so we can identify it and get it to the right family.
CAN I HELP ST. PETER’S AT THE SAME TIME?
Sure! BEFORE you go shopping, buy a script card from St. Peter’s. You can either donate these gift cards to the family in need or use them to buy specific items. When you purchase a script card from St. Peter’s, for anything from food, clothing, to entertainment, St. Peter’s earns a percentage of each card purchased and you still get the full value of the card you are buying.
WHAT IS THE DEADLINE FOR BRINGING IN YOUR GIFTS?
All gifts and donations should be returned to the church by SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10th
Beginning November 12, 2023 through December 10, 2023, every time you make a $25.00 RaiseRight purchase on-line or in-person you will receive ONE raffle ticket towards winning approximately $300.00 worth of cards on the St. Peter's RaiseRight Christmas Wreath.
A drawing will be held on December 17, 2023 when the winner will be notified. You do not need to be in attendance on December 17, 2023 to win. The more RaiseRight $25.00 purchases you make the more chances you will have to win!
RaiseRight (formerly ShopWithScrip) has been in operation at St. Peter’s since 2007. So far, the RaiseRight program has contributed $39,600.00 to St. Peter’s. This includes $2,100.00 raised in 2022. When someone buys RaiseRight cards, they pay the face value of the card and they get the face value of the card. St. Peter’s receives a percentage of that face value from RaiseRight. The customer doesn’t need to do anything except purchase the cards. The “donation” part of the process is all done behind the scenes.
Gift card purchases through RaiseRight don’t have to be hundreds of dollars - $5 and $10 cards are available and all amounts help pay down the church mortgage. Download the RaiseRight app, sign up (our Enrollment Code is D96653C515851) and be part of something impactful for St. Peter’s. Or, visit Jane Stettler at the front door of the church before or after the service. You can also contact Jane and she will send you a sign-up email to walk you through the process.
Join our Women's Bible Study as we let art, both well known and obscure, guide and enlighten us this Advent Season through Epiphany. We will be discussing two books: The Art of Advent and The Art of Christmas both by Jane Williams. We will be starting our discussions on these books on Monday, November 27th at 7:30pm on Zoom. Please reach out to Stephanie Freidly if you are interested in joining or have any questions in general about St. Peter's Women's Bible Study.
Join us for worship this Sunday, November 12th for the 24th Sunday after Pentecost!
Join us as we celebrate and we share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.
We share communion in the front of the sanctuary these days while also having individual communion cups available for anyone who wishes to remain in their pew, and we are also passing the offering plate during worship or you can simply mail your offering to the church office or go to the church website. If you would like to help serve as a greeter, communion assistant or with the offering please contact Pastor Suloff.
The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!
We are partnering with the Weekday Nursery School in their Thanksgiving Food Drive for Laurel House! A list of needed items can be found below and they can be dropped off in the Narthex or in the Church Office. They are also accepting turkey certificates from Giant or Venmo donations. Turkey certificates need to include their shopper card number on the certificate in order for it to be redeemed. Venmo can go to @SPPA2022.
Turkey pan
Boxed stuffing
Canned green beans
Canned cranberry sauce
Boxed mashed potatoes
Mac and cheese
Cornbread mix
Turkey gravy mix
Dessert
Foil
Giant gift card
Turkey certificate
Plans are underway for the 41st annual Boars Head and Yule Log festival!
January 6th 1pm,4 pm, 7 pm & January 7th 1pm and 4 pm
What a beautiful way to start the New Year!
Please consider volunteering to participate and share in this unique traditional event!
There is a sign up book in the Chapel or you can contact the Church Office.
Email Kate Garrison with any questions.
We will also have a sign-up genius set up online in the near future as well.
Would you like to be in the Boars Head choir?
Please contact Ya Jhu Yang.
Tickets are now available by using the button below or by contacting the church office.
Join us for worship this Sunday, October 29th for Reformation Sunday!
Join us as we celebrate and we share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.
We share communion in the front of the sanctuary these days while also having individual communion cups available for anyone who wishes to remain in their pew, and we are also passing the offering plate during worship or you can simply mail your offering to the church office or go to the church website. If you would like to help serve as a greeter, communion assistant or with the offering please contact Pastor Suloff.
The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!
Plans are underway for the 41st annual Boars Head and Yule Log festival!
January 6th 1pm,4 pm, 7 pm & January 7th 1pm and 4 pm
What a beautiful way to start the New Year!
Please consider volunteering to participate and share in this unique traditional event!
There is a sign up book in the Chapel or you can contact the Church Office.
Email Kate Garrison with any questions.
We will also have a sign-up genius set up online in the near future as well.
Would you like to be in the Boars Head choir?
Please contact Ya Jhu Yang.
Tickets are now available by using the button below or by contacting the church office.
TRUNK OR TREAT ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29th FOLLOWING THE WORSHIP SERVICE!
Mobile Ministry works to collect and distribute much needed food and personal items to the homeless on the streets and in shelters, as well as supplying personal hygiene items to the Seafarers who come into the port of Philadelphia. For the last several years we have been able to fill and distribute 100 drawstring bags, every year, even during the pandemic.
We’ve put together a “wish list” on Amazon to make donating even easier. We most graciously will except individual items dropped in the narthex bins as well as Amazon orders from the wish list. Do you want to donate but don't want to do the shopping? Gift cards or checks could be dropped off at the church office (to the attention of Mobile Ministry) and we will do the shopping for you!
Donations for this ministry will be collected now through the month of September.
The Mobile Ministry Homeless Winter Gift Bags and Seafarers Ditty Bag wish list on Amazon can be found using the button below.
Items that are not on the wish list, because the pricing was not good on Amazon and can be bought at the Dollar Store cheaper.
Body wash and shampoo, all in one - need 50
Lotion for dry skin - need 50
We are still searching for vendors to donate (or sell us) warm socks, winter gloves and women's personal hygiene products, at a good discount.
If you have any questions please contact Ellen Daneke.
Thank you for your continuing support of the outreach ministry!
Join us as we celebrate and we share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live AND...
NOW ON THE CHURCH WEBSITE (OUR NEW AUDIO/VISUAL EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN INSTALLED AND THE LIVESTREAM OF THE SERVICE CAN BE FOUND ON THE CHURCH HOMEPAGE)!
We share communion in the front of the sanctuary these days while also having individual communion cups available for anyone who wishes to remain in their pew, and we are also passing the offering plate during worship or you can simply mail your offering to the church office or go to the church website. If you would like to help serve as a greeter, communion assistant or with the offering please contact Pastor Suloff.
The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!
Exciting to start a project! If you were not able to come to the Open House and want to see what we are all about, please be sure to stop by.
Would you like to learn to crochet or knit so that you can be a part of the Prayer Shawl Ministry and share God’s love and care, along with the people of St. Peter’s, with those in need? Guess what?!? We have a ton of resources for you below!!!
YOU TUBE:
Bella Coco: How to Crochet for Absolute Beginners, Episodes 1, 2; How to Single Crochet; How to Crochet, Left-hand, for Absolute Beginners, Episode 1
Good Knit Kisses: How to Single Crochet—Beginner Crochet Lesson 1, Right-handed; How to Single Crochet—Beginner Crochet, Lesson 1, Left-handed
Kristin’s Crochet Tutorials
Sheep & Stitch: How to Cast On, Knitting for Total Beginners; there’s a full series on link for free
Expression Fiber Arts: How to Knit, Absolute Beginners; Knitting Lesson 1 - Even if You’re Clueless (includes L-handed knitting)
Erica Arndt: She has a How to Knit series
WEB SITES:
Allfreeknitting.com has 7 modules
LOCAL CLASSES:
Wild Hand: (Carpenter’s Lane, Phila) Knitting/Crochet Basics $10
Luv2Knit&More: Jenkintown, Beginning Crochet/Beginning Knitting $40
Purls of Wisdom: Phoenixville, Crochet $45; Knitting $60
Join us for worship this Sunday, October 8th for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost!
Join us as we celebrate and we share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live or through the Church Website.
The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!
A HUGE THANK YOU to Matt Clark for our own Matt Clark for serving as Guest Preacher today and our own Gary Rotenbury for serving as Worship Leader this Sunday!!!
St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church not only represents an historical congregation, having been founded in 1752, but also history itself, having played a small, but not insignificant role in the American Revolution. On May 20, 1778 the original church building and the church graveyard were the centerpiece for a key skirmish between the British forces then occupying Philadelphia, and a contingent of General George Washington’s Continental army, then based at Valley Forge.
In recognition of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Barren Hill on Saturday, May 20, 2028, St. Peter’s is currently involved in planning, in conjunction with the Philadelphia-based Museum of the American Revolution, a celebration of this key moment in local history. As part of the initial planning phase of the event, St. Peter’s will be visiting the annual Revolutionary Germantown Festival (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) on October 7. https://cliveden.org/revolutionary-germantown-festival/
Based around the Chew House at Cliveden on Germantown Avenue and Johnson Street, the centerpiece of the Battle of Germantown, the Revolutionary Germantown Festival will also be hosting the Museum of the American Revolution, which will display and interpret a replica of the tent that served as George Washington's mobile headquarters throughout much of the Revolutionary War. St. Peter’s is inviting everyone interested in either the Battle of Germantown or the Battle of Barren Hill to come to the festival and to meet representatives of the MUseum of the American Revolution.
The clash of armies at Barren Hill took place after Washington sent a sizable force of some 2200 men, including 50 Oneida Indian scouts, towards Philadelphia via Barren Hill to investigate the intentions of the British, who were thought to be planning a major troop movement. The area around the church was well known to Washington, since he had retreated through Barren Hill on the Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike Road the previous fall after the unsuccessful Battle of Germantown on Oct. 4, 1777. Washington appointed the 20-year-old Frenchman, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette to lead the Continental forces, “to obtain intelligence of their movements and designs.” Washington had also warned young General Lafayette that “any accident happening to [your detachment] would be a very severe blow to the army.”
However, Tory spies had appraised the British of Lafayette’s venture and a trap was laid for the Continental Army with some 20,000 British andHessian troops surrounding Lafayette’s men. However, using the steeple of the original church as a lookout, Lafayette managed to escape the trap and withdraw his forces back towards Matson’s Ford via the “sunken road” now known as Barren Hill Road, though not after an engagement was fought around the church and the graveyard, where 13 American casualties (nine Continental soldiers and four Oneida Indians) are still buried.
St. Peter’s, working with the Museum of the American Revolution, plans to commemorate this moment in American history in 2028. The first step in the process of organizing an event will be attending the Revolutionary Germantown Festival on Oct. 7.
Join us as we celebrate and we share the life, love, and joy of Jesus Christ with all at 10am in person and on Facebook Live AND...
NOW ON THE CHURCH WEBSITE (OUR NEW AUDIO/VISUAL EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN INSTALLED AND THE LIVESTREAM OF THE SERVICE CAN BE FOUND ON THE CHURCH HOMEPAGE)!
We share communion in the front of the sanctuary these days while also having individual communion cups available for anyone who wishes to remain in their pew, and we are also passing the offering plate during worship or you can simply mail your offering to the church office or go to the church website. If you would like to help serve as a greeter, communion assistant or with the offering please contact Pastor Suloff.
The worship bulletin can be found by clicking below. Don't forget to share with your friends and comment during the service - it is the easiest Evangelism you will ever do!
Some stats: Since the Prayer Shawl Ministry started keeping track in 2015 (the ministry actually began in 2011), a grand total of 3405 items have been made to gift to others or to sell at our Christmas gift table. All proceeds of anything sold at the Christmas table have been donated to various charities. Our 2022 total was 195 items; so far for 2023, we have made 18 items! We need your help! Maybe you have some experience knitting or crocheting, maybe you know someone who can knit/crochet, maybe you want to learn. Maybe you are a high school student who needs community service hours! We need your help if we are to continue this ministry. Come to the Prayer Shawl Ministry Open House on September 17 to learn more!
